IRAQ: Bioweapons smoking gun

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 04:34:18 MDT

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    Well, the NY Times is offering some evidence of a smoking gun:

    Trailer is a Mobile Lab Capable of Turning Out Bioweapons, a Team Says
    May 11, 2003 By JUDITH MILLER
    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/international/worldspecial/11WEAP.html?pagewanted=print

    Speaking as someone who has developed biotech labs, I'll state fairly
    strongly that one doesn't do so in a truck trailer for any legitimate
    purpose that I can think of. Trailer based labs, esp. those containing
    fermentation apparatus, would seem to be strong evidence for bioweapons
    development operations.

    On balance, the administration may have a very difficult time proving
    that such trailers were assembled by the former Iraqi administration
    and not some black ops group tasked with manufacturing evidence for
    a bioweapons program. (Though if the administration were in the business
    of manufacturing evidence they have (so far) done a much poorer job
    than one could reasonably expect them to be capable of.)

    Robert



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